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bagheera

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Registered: 2009-06-13

Posts: 84

radeon 9200, VERY slow rendering

Hi, i had to install radeon9200 instead my old GF6600GT in arch machine.
According to wiki, i have installed xf86-video-ati driver. I don't have xorg.conf.
Each time after login in KDM, when splash screen is displayed, display goes blank (or total mess) for about 1 second.
Later, in KDE, rendering is terribly SLOW.

I have fully updated system.
I have found in log this:

[root@tux ~]# grep -e '(EE)' -e '(WW)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log 
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
(WW) RADEON(0): DRI init changed memory map, adjusting ...
(WW) RADEON(0):   MC_FB_LOCATION  was: 0xdfffd000 is: 0xdfffd000
(WW) RADEON(0):   MC_AGP_LOCATION was: 0xffffffc0 is: 0xe07fe000

What does it mean? Why rendering is even slower than old GF2 MX400 ?

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